Well, from her list, I do read a few: Kenner and Powers within the last six months; Ransom not recently, but I could recite at least two, maybe four of his poems most of the way through with reasonable accuracy. Others I have read, and consider to have taken on a factitious importance from America's own sense of itself following WW II. I wonder how any of Bellow outside _Seize the Day_ will last, or Updike, or Mailer.

I don't want to be well-read, though I often want to read.

(And is John Auerbach really Erich Auerbach in disguise?--go to Google and see what you think.)